screenshot126 Janet Eve Josselyn’s Thin Rich Bitches was an entertaining read. It’s not terribly deep-in fact, I think it’s ideal for vacation or when you need a break from heavier reading. And the fact that it’s light isn’t a criticism. There are times I seek out books that I just want to entertain me.

From the Amazon book summary: “An uproarious romp through the minefield of female one-upmanship!

Leaving her cheating husband in Boston with the paralegal he impregnated, Pippin Snowe and her son move to a ramshackle farmhouse in the exclusive community of Dover, Massachusetts. Pippin finds employment with a local architect, designing kitchen renovations for wealthy Dover women who treat her as they treat the rest of the hired help. Concluding that social climbing is just another sport that she is no good at, Pippin opens a country club for dogs that offers services that the Dover women didn’t know they wanted until they found out that admission was required and spaces were limited.

With irreverent wit, Thin Rich Bitches is a humorous chronicle of one woman’s quest to find her place within a community of people who are more blessed physically and financially, while learning valuable lessons about life, love, competition, and canine couture.”

I liked that this was no twenty-eight year old perky heroine. She’s closer to my age, and has insecurities that I know a lot of women have. Josselyn’s depiction of the thin, rich, bitches of Dover is amusing. Women who have more money than they know what to do with; women who lord volunteer positions in the parent teacher organization over the other mothers as if they were CEO jobs.  The pressure of so many to be in the “in crowd” and the refreshing wit of truly monied people who don’t care a bit about it.

There’s no huge conflict point in the plot- no climax from which our heroine must crawl, and that is OK. That it is just a story of what happens when a newly divorced woman begins to find her place again is fine.

However, there were a number of editing errors  I found distracting.  I downloaded this book on July 2, and I do not know if these errors have been corrected since then.  In the interest of full disclosure, here are the things I noticed:  The spelling of our protagonist’s name is not consistent through the book. At times it is Pippin, and in other instances it is Pippen.  The ex-husband’s pregnant girlfriend is at times Pattie and other times Patty. Christmas is consistently abbreviated as XMAS, which isn’t terrible but I felt like it was a shorthand for writing that was not caught in editing. Espresso drinks were spelled expresso. Lilly Pulitzer’s name was misspelled.  I was able to get past these and enjoy the overall story, but it did detract enough while I was reading that I flipped pages to verify that Pippen had indeed previously been Pippin, and I double checked the correct spelling for both espresso and Lilly Pulitzer.

The good news is that I’ve told you about these annoying errors. It’s a fun read if you can get past them, and since you’ve been forewarned, that shouldn’t be a problem.